This special broadcast featured reports from the Pan-African News Wire related to developments in South Sudan, Madagascar and other African states.

During the second half of the program, we interviewed Norman Otis Richmond, longtime bluesologist and resident of the city of Toronto, Canada. Richmond has been a broadcaster and cultural worker in Canada and the United States for many years.

The focus of our discussion with Richmond related to the passing of African National Congress leader and former South African President Nelson Mandela. Richmond along with many others in North America were organizers for the cultural boycott against the apartheid regime which played a role in the isolation of the racist system in Southern Africa.

Numerous artists were targeted and pressured into not performing in South Africa or to apologize if they did visit the country under apartheid. A review of some of these struggles were presented on theprogram.

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Pan-African News Wire

The Pan-African News Wire is an international electronic press service designed to foster intelligent discussion on the affairs of African people throughout the continent and the world. The press agency was founded in January of 1998 and has published thousands of articles and dispatches in newspapers, magazines, journals, research reports, blogs and websites throughout the world.
The PANW represents the only daily international news source on pan-african and global affairs.
PANW editor Abayomi Azikiwe is often solicited by various newspaper, radio and television stations for comment and analysis on local, national and world affairs. He has served as a political analyst for Press TV and RT worldwide satellite television news networks as well as other international media in the areas of African and world affairs. He has appeared on numerous television and radio networks including Press TV, RT, Al Jazeera, China Global Television Network, BBC, NPR, Radio Netherlands, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, South Africa Radio 786, Belgian Pirate Radio, TVC Nigeria and others.